Date of Award
2020
Document Type
Open Access Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MS)
Administrative Home Department
Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Advisor 1
Youngchul Ra
Committee Member 1
Chunpei Cai
Committee Member 2
Hassan Masoud
Abstract
The Laminar flame speed is an essential parameter in measuring turbulent premixed combustion applied in Spark ignition engines. Instead of using power-law correlations, which is valid only for particular ranges, the procedure for generating a premixed laminar flame speed library is defined using MTU – Master mechanism for a wide range of charge mixture conditions inside an engine combustion chamber: Temperature (300 – 700 K), Pressure (1 – 70 bar) and reactant mixture composition of equivalence ratio (0.4 – 2.0) Laminar flame speed library is generated for methane. The mechanism's performance was improved by adjusting the pre-exponential factor of the most sensitive reactions found from the sensitivity analysis to match the simulation results with experimental data in the literature. It is observed that the sensitivity order of reactions changes for different operating conditions, except that H+O2=O+OH, is the most sensitive reaction.
Recommended Citation
Kumar, Sai Prashanth, "GENERATION OF PREMIX LAMINAR FLAME SPEED LIBRARY", Open Access Master's Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 2020.
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